Popular Culture category: 4839 books
A National Joke
Popular Comedy and English Cultural Identities
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Comedy is crucial to how the English see themselves. This book considers that proposition through a series of case studies of popular English comedies and comedians in the twentieth century, ranging from the Carry On films to the work of Mike Leigh and contemporary sitcoms such as The Royle Family,...
by Maira Kalman
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
From Maira Kalman, the author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and The Elements of Style, comes this beautiful pictorial and narrative exploration of the significance of objects in our lives, drawn from her personal artifacts, recollections, and selections from the collection of the...
Travels with Barley
A Journey Through Beer Culture in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Do beer yeast rustlers really exist? Who patented the Beer Goddess? How can you tell a Beer Geek from a Beer Nazi? Where exactly is Beervana? Does Big Beer hate Little Beer?
Ken Wells, a novelist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and longtime Wall Street Journal writer, answers these questions and more by...
The Emergence of Rock and Roll
Music and the Rise of American Youth Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Rock and roll music evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s, as a combination of African American blues, country, pop, and gospel music produced a new musical genre. Even as it captured the ears of the nation, rock and roll was the subject of controversy and contention. The music...
The Fabulous Sylvester
The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A journey back through the music, madness, and unparalleled freedom of an era of change-the '70s-as told through the life of ultra-fabulous superstar Sylvester
Imagine a pied piper singing in a dazzling falsetto, wearing glittering sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San...
In Search of the Lost Chord
1967 and the Hippie Idea
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
"Antiwar radicals, recoiling from soullessness, challenged the church of technocratic rationality. Taking this challenge seriously, recovering the mood of an extended moment, requires beginning earlier and ending later than 1968. Cultural upheaval cannot be confined by the calendar. At least...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
This fascinating and thought-provoking read challenges readers to consider entertainers and entertainment in new ways, and highlights figures from outside the worlds of film, television, and music as influential "pop stars."
X Saves the World
How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
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In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive "manifesto for a generation that's never had much use for manifestos," Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the "Smells Like Teen Spirit"breakthrough of the early 1990s,...
100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
(and Al Franken Is #37)
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The number one New York Times bestselling author of Bias delivers another bombshell—this time aimed at . . .
100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
No preaching. No pontificating. Just some uncommon sense about the things that have made this country great—and the culprits who are...
The Secret Parts of Fortune
Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2000
In 1998, Ron Rosenbaum published Explaining Hitler, a national bestseller and one of the most acclaimed books of the year, hailed by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times as "lucid and exciting . . . a provocative work of cultural history that is as compelling as it is thoughtful, as readable as...
Text Me When You Get Home
The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
**“Text Me has the thrills and laughs of a romantic comedy, but with an inverted message: ‘There just isn't only one love story in our lives,’ Schaefer writes. If you’re lucky, friends will be the protagonists in these multiple love stories. It’s high time that we start seeing it that way.”—NPR.org
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Pop Goes Korea
Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music and Internet Culture (2nd Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Today, most everyone has heard of South Korean pop culture. The flashy, exciting world of K-pop, like BTS, Exo, Twice and 2NE1 (and, yes, Psy's "Gangnam Style"). Hit movies like Oldboy, Train to Busan, and The Host. Addicting TV dramas like Jewel in the Palace, My Love From the Star, and...
The Beatles
Image and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
The Beatles: Image and the Media charts the transformation of the Beatles from teen idols to leaders of the youth movement and powerful cultural agents. Drawing upon American mainstream print media, broadcasts, albums, films, and videos, the study covers the band's career in the United States. Michael...
Are Men Necessary?
When Sexes Collide
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
Outspoken, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist Maureen Dowd tackles the hot-button topic of gender politics in this “funny, biting, and incisive take on women's place in American society today” (Library Journal).
Are men afraid of smart, successful women? Why did feminism...